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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

Program Manager at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

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  • Contract Management position
  • Roodepoort
  • Posted 02 Feb 2026 by DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
  • Expires in 30 days
  • Job 2632216 - Ref 878000015899042
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About the position

We are seeking to appoint an experienced Program Manager to lead, manage, and deliver two major infrastructure migration programs: VMware Migration (Colocation Project) and the iSeries/AS400 Migration (Power 11).



Responsibilities:


  • Lead execution across Server, Network, iSeries, Cybersecurity and vendors.
  • Drive change control (CAB), cutover orchestration, testing and validation.
  • Ensure DR alignment, replication setup and performance baselining.
  • Maintain Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions register.
  • Financial tracking (budget, actuals, forecasts), vendor deliverable oversight.
  • Conformance to Clover standards (architecture, Cybersecurity, BCP/DR, Risk and Audit).
  • Entry/exit criteria for each phase and environment readiness tracking.
  • Performance testing and acceptance criteria definition.
  • Update SOPs, runbooks, diagrams, DR procedures, and Asset Lists.
  • Deliver knowledge transfer & training sessions to Clover Operations.
  • Produce Post-Implementation Review (PIR) and Program Closure Report.
  • Project Charters (VMware & iSeries).
  • Integrated Master Schedule Plan (cross-vendor).
  • RAID & Decision Logs.
  • SteerCo/ExCo packs and status dashboards.
  • VMware Migration Plan & runbooks (including rollback).
  • iSeries Migration Plan & runbooks (including rollback).
  • Pre-migration readiness and environment validation reports.
  • Application/integration dependency maps and cutover checklists.
  • DR alignment and replication validation reports.


Requirements
  • Matric and a Tertiary Degree
  • 10 years’ experience in a leadership role
  • Delivering both migrations within agreed scope, timelines and budget with minimal business disruption.
  • Align to Clover architecture, cyber security, BCM/DR and audit standards.
  • Establish unified, cross-vendor plans and reporting.
  • Ensure thorough testing, acceptance, documentation and knowledge transfer to Operations.
  • Proactively manage risks, issues, decisions and dependencies via a maintained Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions RAID log.
  • Develop Project Charters and integrated plans for VMware and iSeries migrations.
  • Conduct discovery/readiness assessments, dependency and capacity analysis.
  • Define migration strategy.


Desired Skills:

  • Program management
  • vmware
  • security vendor management

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

About The Employer:


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DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment

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Dedicated to the recruitment of IT professionals Sabenza iT is a South African registered business focusing on Finance, Engineering, SAP and general iT recruitment. We have over 18 years' experience in recruiting in South Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia and have worked with a number of large companies offering the best service. We at Sabenza iT understands the changing market and we mold our services around each of our client's needs to offer a personal service. Sabenza iT has forged strong relationships with both Clients and Consultants by ensuring both parties get the most out of every placement. Our Head Office is based in South Africa and we have a satellite office in the UK so that we can keep in contact with expats who may consider returning to South Africa and so that we can offer our services globally for Consultants looking to go to South Africa and Consultants who are looking for opportunities abroad. We at Sabenza recognize the difference it makes to maintain good client relationships and we are keeping our client base niche and manageable in order to give the best service possible. We have gained a good reputation in the market place and have built a very large network and database of consultants that we draw from for each role. We are able to send applications within 24 hours of receiving a role profile or spec. We use one of the best Database software tools available to keep our database up to date and very fast to search. Sabenza iT does not only use job-sites, we headhunt and we use our network to find our clients the right Candidates. We have a strong Facebook presence and we have over 12,000 LinkedIn connections. For further information, please visit our website www.sabenzait.co.za or call me at any time on Tel: 0330040131.

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